Hog-feeding apparatus.



CHARLES GUY HOWARD, OF EXETER, NEBRASKA.

HOG-FEEDING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 24-, 1911.

Application filed July 6, 1910. Serial No. 570,557.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES GUY How- ARD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Exeter, in the county of Fillmore and State ofNebraska, have invented a new and Improved Hog-Feeding Apparatus, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are:to provide an apparatus for feeding cattle, and more particularly swine,which may be arranged to regulate the rate of delivery of the food; toprovide an apparatus of the character described where the door fordelivering the food may be readily and quickly adjusted; and to providea construction which is simple, economical and durable.

One embodiment of the present invention is disclosed in the structureillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like characters ofreference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the apparatus, thesection being taken on the line 1-1 in Fig. 3; Fig. 2 is a horizontalsection taken on the line 22 in Fig. 3; and Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection taken on the line 33in Fig. 1.

The apparatus, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, comprises ahopper S, the inclined sides 9, 9 whereof are disposed substantially asshown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, to converge toward the center of thebottoms 10, 10 of the troughs 11, 11. The sides 9, 9 are supported inend pieces 12, 12, and are reinforced at their upper edges againstspreading by tie bars 13, 13. The hopper 8 is covered by a pitched roofformed by a suspended side 14 and a door side 15. The door side 15 ishinged at 16 to the upper ridge of the roof to swing upward, as shown inbroken lines in Fig. 3 of the drawings. lVith the door 15 raised thehopper may be filled with any suitable fodder, such as corn, nuts orswill.

The bottom of the hopper 8 is formed by a longitudinally disposed ridge16. The lower extensions of the sides of the ridge 16 pass beyond thehopper 8 and form the inner sides of the troughs 11. The sides 9, 9 ofthe hopper at the lower edge are removed from the sides of the ridge 16to form a passage between the sides 9, 9 and the said ridge.

7 This passageway is controlled by sliding doors 1 17. The doors 17, 17

are provided at the upper edges with outturned extensions l8, 18 wherebythey are raised and lowered, or otherwise manually operated. The doorsslide on the out-turned llanges '19, 19, as seen in the drawings. Thedoors have secured thereon, and located about centrally therewith, adisk 20. The disk 20 is pivotally mounted at 21 upon each door 19, andpivotally connected at 22, 22 to rods 23, 23, which rods 23, 23 areconnected with end bolts 24, 24. The bolts 24, 24: may extend throughperforations provided in the end pieces 12, 12 to form adj ustable holdsfor the doors 17.

The troughs 11, 11 are formed by inclined sides 25, 25 which areover-bent from plates 26, 26 forming side channels 27, 27, whichchannels constitute the members upon which the apparatus rests. Achannel 28 is formed from suitable sheet metal in the manner shown inFig. 3 of the drawings, and disposed longi tud inally on the median lineof the apparatus, being secured firmly and rigidly by any suit ablemethod to the end pieces 12,12.

It will be understood that in so far as possible all of the membersdescribed and shown in the accompanying drawings are constructed frommetal, the sides and top, as well as the framing channels below thefloor of the troughs, being constructed from sheet metal, while therods, bolts and disk forming the lock for the doors 17, are preferablyformed of bar and plate metal. The bolts 24, 24; are slidably mounted inguide loops 29, 29.

The operation of the invention is as follows: The hopper 8 having beensupplied, the material therein deposited is permitted to run into thetroughs 11, 11. by adjusting the doors 17, 17. The doors 17 are raisedand lowered by the extensions 18. To permit the movement of the doors 17the disk 20 is rotated. To manipulate the disk 20 the operator engagesthe handle 30 thereof. lVhen the disk is thus rotated,the rods 23 andbolts 24 connected therewith are contracted, so that the bolts 21 arewithdrawn from engagement with the perforations in the end pieces 12,12. 711cm the doors 17 17 are properly adjusted, the disks 20, 20 arerotated in a direction the reverse of that formerly described, to extendoutward the bolts 24, 2 1 to engage the perforations in the said endpieces 12, 12.

If desired, the handles 30, 30 may consist of removable pins, which arewithdrawn as and when the doors are set, thus offering no obstructionfor the damaging of the animal feeding in the troughs 11, ll.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is A hog feeding apparatus comprising a hopperhaving sides inclined outwardly at the top; gabled end members closingsaid hopper; doors hinged to the upper angles of said end members; aridge-like bottom for said hopper, the inclined sides whereof eX- tendbeyond the walls of said hopper to deliver the contents of said hopperupon the floor of troughs at both sides of said hopper;

15 and a floor structure for said troughs formed from sheet metallongitudinally disposed rectangular sill members formed from bendedsheet metal said metal being raised above said floor and bent inwardlyand downwardly to form the outer sides of said troughs, said bentsections forming in conjunction with the said ridge-like bottom invertedV shaped troughs.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES GUY HOWVARD. lVitnesses:

C. A. BIoKEL, J. O. VVILSON.

